Vera Baker - London newspapers are breaking a story about Barack Obama having a girlfriend named Vera Baker - pictured below - during his 2004 Senate race.
Republicans are working the Vera Baker Obama girlfriend rumor pretty hard, but it hasn’t gotten much traction in the news so far.
Supposedly, Michelle Obama had the attractive young woman removed from her duties after becoming convinced that her husband had developed a personal friendship with the staffer.
The Obama girlfriend rumors first surfaced from Hillary Clinton’s camp two weeks before the Democratic Convention.
Friends of Vera Baker, now 33 years old, say she was removed from her position in 2004 because of her close friendship with Barack Obama. “She disappeared, then she reappeared in the Caribbean.”
Vera Baker denied that Mrs Obama had raised any objections to her job on the 2004 campaign.
“No,” Baker said. “Nothing happened. I just left … at the end of the campaign.”
Asked about the claim that Mrs Obama accused her of having a close friendship with the Senator, she said: “I have no comment on anything. I switched careers. That’s it. I’m a Democrat and I support Senator Obama … I don’t have anything to say.”
Baker added that she emigrated to the Caribbean from the US after falling in love with the man with whom she now lives.
The latest Obama girlfriend rumor claims that Vera Baker is being paid off with a cushy job in Martinique created by a Democratic fundraiser to keep her out of the media spotlight.
Latest word on the Obama affair scandal:
Some people in Chicago claim she was Obama’s Finance Director for his 2004 Senate campaign. FEC Senate campaign records show she was paid a pretty penny as “Finance Director”.
However, people familiar with Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign say Claire Serdiuk was Obama’s Finance Director. Looking through everything we can see online for that 2004 campaign, Claire Serdiuk is consistently listed as the Finance Director - because that’s what she was.
There’s no mention of Vera Baker…but Vera Baker was paid as the “Finance Director” too.
And then, suddenly, Baker was relocated to New York.
Right around the time Michelle Obama got incredibly angry about something. We know it was hard to tell, because Michelle’s angry about something on a good day…but this was EXTRA angry.
And then, even more suddenly, Baker was relocated to the island of Martinique, where she remains.
And that’s the latest news on the rumored Barack Obama girlfriend, Vera Baker.
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